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It's a shame I don't have MM access, as I have an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 with all forged copper cooling on the board, an x5650 and 16GB of 2400mhz RAM and 48GB of 1600mhz RAM sat in a cupboard lol.
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It's a shame I don't have MM access, as I have an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 with all forged copper cooling on the board, an x5650 and 16GB of 2400mhz RAM and 48GB of 1600mhz RAM sat in a cupboard lol.
Are the Chinese boards the one's with all black heatsinks on etc and unbranded?
That is a shame, get posting as only need another 242 more posts! lol
Agreed, if there's no PC alternative to use then maybe a cheapo board is the answer, but personally, I'd take the hit, wait 2 months and see what the new Ryzen 3000 is like and if it's worth the hype.
Haha tell me about it! Don't want to post just for the sake of it, but I suppose it would get me to 1k posts lol.
Yeah I think those Chinese ones are all unbranded, so I'd assume the VRM's are probably cheap components and the cooling will likely leave a lot to be desired as well as overclocking from a combo of sh!t VRMs and poor BIOS... could be wrong, they may well be amazing, but I'd personally not take the risk as I did briefly consider one before I found the Asus P6T.
Ill avoid trying these then! did look at them and showed that they where released in 2015.If they're the cheap xeon ones on ebay.. I bought one. Could not get the damn thing to even get past the boot codes despite trying several supposedly compatible CPUs.
In the end I binned it. There's a reason they're so cheap - because they're awful.
I am running tighter timing on my ram and only 1600mhh and also have 16gb. Are you ram in the correct slots? I am not sure how many ram slots you have but if you have not put them in the correct order to get triple channel you will run some odd configuration. You bios settings seem all good.
very strange you are loosing performance. Can you tighten your timings?
The T3500 will better for everything apart from video encoding and even then it will only be marginally behind the T3600 and not enough for you to notice the difference....Gpu will be an rx580 4gb, workload will be gaming, website creation inc video encoding and photoshop.
What's the general consensus?
Cheers MArtinPrince, that's pretty much my thinking, also I'm sure it will kill my aging i5 3470 in just about every task thrown at it apart from where higher ipc is needed.The T3500 will better for everything apart from video encoding and even then it will only be marginally behind the T3600 and not enough for you to notice the difference.
Yep it will be feel a fair bit quicker than the 3470, especially in some games that will utilise all cores/threads.Cheers MArtinPrince, that's pretty much my thinking, also I'm sure it will kill my aging i5 3470 in just about every task thrown at it apart from where higher ipc is needed.
Hi all,
I'm after some advice, the company I do I.T shennigans for is having a refresh so they are selling old gear to staff, 1 unit per head, proceeds to charity. So for £50 I'm looking at the below:
Dell t3500 with w3680 6c 6t, unlocked so it will do 4ghz with throttlestop
or
Dell t3600 with e5 2680 8c 8t, no chance to oc, all core boost 3.1ghz
My brain tells me go with the slightly newer platform but on the flipside i'm pretty sure a 4ghz w3680 will best it in quite a few tasks.
Gpu will be an rx580 4gb, workload will be gaming, website creation inc video encoding and photoshop.
What's the general consensus?
4 GHz Westmere will be faster than 3.1 GHz Sandy Bridge, but of course the latter has 33% more cores.e5 2680 is sandy bridge w3680 is westmere i believe so you also gotta consider lower IPC